It happened again. This time, a 19-year-old gunman pulled the fire alarm at his high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As students filed out of classrooms, presumably thinking there was another fire drill happening, the shooter, a...

Sarah Carpenter is a fearless advocate fighting in Memphis, Tennessee - and nationally - for public schools that improve the lives of marginalized children. So, what gets a grandmother of 13 out of bed every morning prepared to fight the power? Years ago a...

As I watched President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on January 29th, I couldn’t help remembering the famous Las Vegas scene from the second Godfather film. During that scene, a steely Al Pacino – playing a mafia boss cum gambling magnate – confronts a...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently issued a sweeping 158-page report demonstrating how K-12 funding structures negatively impact opportunities for low-income students and students of color. Among many recommendations, the report recommends that Congress act...

My boys are in first grade this year. For each of my sons, my husband and I paid $27 for education fees, $99 for textbooks and $36 for workbooks. When you add those fees up for both our children, we paid $324 this school year. That does not include the money we...

Prejudice and injustice in the Trump era can be a fragile subject. Make it the focus of an upper-level sociology course at one of Florida’s public universities, and you’ve all but lit a powder keg. Ted Thornhill, a human science instructor at Florida Gulf Coast...

On Jan. 23, the Hartford Board of Education unanimously passed a plan that will close 12 schools in the Hartford School District over the next three years and reconfigure others. Parents and teachers have contested the plan, saying it will negatively impact students....

I can't wait for the opening night of Marvel's Black Panther, which, if black folks have anything to do with it, will be the event movie of the year. For half a century I've waited to see a black superhero that wasn't a sidekick or a diversity consolation prize. My...

Southern rapper Yo Gotti is in the middle of a public education controversy. The 37-year-old father of three drew criticism after the Shelby County Schools put him on billboards in a campaign to urge young people to graduate from high school. The campaign announced...

This post by Lane Towery is a response to an editorial run by the board of The Gallup Independent on January 20th, 2018. The newspaper does not make most articles available online so the editorial can be found in full below. The post below was originally posted in the...